| 单词 | foreign |
| 例句 | I felt like some mysterious foreign species he was observing and trying to figure out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Where his father had the gift of gab, Kermit had a gift for learning foreign languages. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Trying to pretend he's a foreign exchange student living in our house, like he always is.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This time, the political unrest wasn't orchestrated by foreign powers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z "But what does this school think, sending children like you alone to a foreign country?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Tell me, have you studied any foreign languages yet? French? Italian? German?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Now that they are being forced to go back, he’s been using new vocabulary, like a tourist studying foreign phrases for a trip abroad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I knew we had potassium in the kitchen and suddenly I knew that if I were writing a story about a Communist cook, I’d have him poison his foreign employers with potassium. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I will end up with my hair dyed, wearing outlandish clothes and heavy, foreign silver jewellery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was another of his foreign, musical words, and I vowed to learn how to say this one properly. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They talked about things that were foreign to me, like summer internships and historically black colleges. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The first and last time she went to see the cousins play the foreign game of basketball, the Matriarch had been horrified. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z All she knew was that walking down her street suddenly felt like she was walking in some foreign land where the people spoke a language she didn’t know. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In his opening remarks, Tho referred to the Saigon government as an American “puppet,” one that could never stand without a foreign power holding its strings. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s some foreign money, with puffy-headed kings and queens wearing tall collars. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “It is yours if you can take it,” she said in a voice like her eyes: cold, and clear, and foreign. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some use the original, foreign plurals: alumnae; alumni; data; media; phenomena. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They built churches out of plaster and wood and sat within them, reading books written in foreign tongues. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I find I do not belong here any more, it is a foreign world. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z On the morning of January 27, 1965, a week after inauguration day, Johnson and his top foreign policy advisors met to discuss the crisis. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He hurled the javelin across the field, a symbol of engaging in combat with a foreign enemy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Liliane said there would be movie cameras there, foreign journalists taking pictures. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The foreign sounds he still made, the evidence of the Old World in his teeth, put me somewhat at ease. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Without credit, the new nation would remain a laughingstock in foreign eyes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “When there are threats to national security, foreign or domestic, the government has to do what it feels necessary to make sure Americans are safe,” Jessica said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z In the late fifteenth century, as European explorers sailed to unfamiliar places, their actions and beliefs were guided by the Doctrine of Discovery—the idea that European nations could claim the foreign lands they “discovered.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It felt, to Elena, like a foreign country where rules did not reach. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He points to a collection of essays, mine, out of place among Papa's foreign dictionaries. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t all that different from hers and James’s secret code, but somehow using symbols instead of letters made it seem more foreign and intimidating. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When Royal was sixteen the war came, and all the young men, first the sons of the mighty, and then the sons of his own people, were scattered into foreign lands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I feel the ring—a little metal bubble, something to add texture, foreign and dirty. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her body seemed foreign somehow — too stiff in places, too firm where the softness used to be. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at me like I had just spoken a foreign language. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I can hear how foreign the words sound on his lips, can see the discomfort it brings him just to say them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After all, every word is "foreign" until you get used to it! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them spent the whole time mopping his face and neck and muttering foreign phrases which Lyddie was sure had to do with the temperature rather than the marvels of the Concord Corporation. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “The Empire State Building has been the location of dozens of movies, the reception site of foreign dignitaries, and even had a World War Two bomber crash into the seventy-ninth floor in 1945.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Given the controversy over whether the Israel lobby is merely undernoticed in American foreign policy or nefariously all-controlling, the meaning of the first cliche is a commonplace; the meaning of the second, incendiary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was part of the terror campaign organized by Senator Trueba and his co-religionists, with the help of foreign experts who had been especially imported to that end. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth stared at him like he was speaking a foreign language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I am positive he is foreign, or used to be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "How come you don't know anything about cricket? Did you come from some foreign place where you played some other sport?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We know that he felt these things, and so has many a traveler in foreign parts who did not know what he was going to find. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The community where he had lived was greatly changed and seemed foreign, though less harsh than he remembered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z On the other hand, we use it whenever we talk about someone who looks foreign. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They made their way up and down Unter den Linden, where the sidewalks were jammed with foreign visitors and provincial Germans, more than a million of whom had poured into the city in recent days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In college, she was afraid and scornful when dark-skinned foreign students from countries like Turkey and India found her attractive. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No big battle, no surrender, no foreign troops liberating them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Life might be difficult for a year or two, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Like an ambassador to a hostile foreign country, my Guardian ad Litem was educated, elegant, and intimidating; however, Mrs. Moss ruled her fiefdom with an iron fist. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Any cell—man, animal, fish, fowl, or insect—given the chance and under the right conditions, brought into contact with any other cell, however foreign, will fuse with it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I mean to travel in a foreign country where there’s snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And yet one might assume strict, conservative, diabolical monsters with foreign accents raised me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At a mass rally at a stadium in Soweto, hundreds of dignitaries from foreign governments gathered to pay their respects to the man who kept the ANC alive during its years of exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had broken into foreign homes, knocked foreigners around, stolen right and left. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It hardly even seems like a foreign country here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, it remains unknown whether it represents an indigenous Cretan script or a foreign import to Crete. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many governments, agencies, and foundations base their policies, foreign aid, and loans on this explanation, by making the development of good institutions in poor countries their top priority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t quite understand how something can feel so comfortable and foreign at the same time. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His was one of many gray tombstones in a line of foreign unpronounceable names. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He left me in the room, which suddenly became as foreign as another country. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The sound of it was foreign and exotic to her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My mask sits atop my face, separate and foreign, hiding my features as well as my emotions. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In her gloved hands she held a large cream-colored box with foreign words written on top: “Fine English-Tailored Apparel, Tientsin.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As I opened it up a cloud of foreign words blew out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The release is foreign and familiar, like crying, but without the pain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move she is about to make, to the city that was once home and is now in its own way foreign. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Pollard was completely alone and penniless in a remote town of a foreign country. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This Sun Maiden world of baths and fine jewelry and formal hair weaving was foreign to her, and she was no longer the prettiest girl whose beauty demanded the attention of everyone around her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Besides, we were in a foreign country, and we needed help finding a place to stay for the night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But we noted down what other foreign steamers would leave London with the same tide, and we satisfied ourselves that we knew the build and colour of each. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z After a while the meadowlarks began to sing again, but their melodious calls were out of place, foreign in this gray, snowy landscape. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad shuffled out of his room holding a bag that looked vaguely foreign. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Even as a child she had some quality that made people look at her, then look away, then look back at her, troubled at something foreign. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Shame to go there again, to foreign ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dorothy Vaughan entered the Greyhound bus in one America and disembarked in another, no less anxious, hopeful, and excited than if she were an immigrant arriving from foreign shores. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z With my friends over, I notice how fluidly I move around my home, weaving through tables, greeting our foreign guests by name and even dropping some hellos in English or French or German. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe the black business executive who says that, although he drives an expensive foreign car, he must be especially wary when a policeman stops him for speeding. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It means having to learn a foreign language, not to mention pre-algebra, a class I’m destined to fail. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A discourse of only one or two minutes on the emotional problems of foreign girls was always sufficient tonic for even the most staid Cambridge evening. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But in its stead, I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When Barack had foreign trips that coincided with school vacations, we traveled as a family, knowing it would be educational. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even if it didn’t drive them to a long delay in a foreign port, it would be with them every league of the way to Salem Harbor. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I... As it turns out, the topic was “Should foreign languages be taught in middle school?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She often told him that her friends envied her, and said he behaved like a foreign husband, the way he made her breakfast on weekends and stayed home every night. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There is so much going on—cheese, spices, peas, and God knows what else—and it tastes like a foreign paradise. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z All morning long, automobiles and special trains disgorged thousands and thousands of passengers from every corner of the nation and the world; the assembly of foreign dignitaries alone equaled a normal day’s attendance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighteen screens of soldiers in a foreign country, walking up dusty streets with heavy guns. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, campfires dwindling, they laid out sleeping rolls for us and sang a lullaby in a lilting foreign language, and I felt pleasantly like a child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Yule Ball is approaching — a traditional part of the Triwizard Tournament and an opportunity for us to socialize with our foreign guests. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But we were in Commonwealth, and Denna showed no foreign accent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Photographs of all the foreign places in the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Third, when Washington talked about independence from foreign nations, his understanding of what American independence entailed cut much deeper than the patriotic veneer customarily suggested by the term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That is, what arrived to launch food production in Egypt was foreign crops and animals, not foreign peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That is the safe way. The foreign bodies must be allowed to en-cyst and the synovial fluid will re-form. Then it will be safe to open up the knee.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She stands with a coat over her shoulders, looking into the dark where expensive foreign cars idle sharply. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He shouted about the Y.M.C.A. being a foreign organization with a foreigner in charge who should be run out of town. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something more foreign about the principal than about any other foreigner she had seen so far. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Philadelphia was the smell of the summer sun, of burnt asphalt, of sizzling meat from food carts tucked into street corners, foreign brown men and women hunched inside. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The movement felt foreign to me, but we needed to know. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I turn away, ashamed in front of this foreign doctor. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The local beer loyalties of individual German drinkers are reinforced by German laws that make it hard for foreign beers to compete in the German market. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, we set out on the foreign adventure. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah yes, so it is. I don’t know, these little bits of paper . “You foreign?” said Mr. Roberts as Mr: Weasley returned with the correct notes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And the snow and the foreign land were a long, long time away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z As a former foreign minister now serving as secretary of state, Jefferson required no instruction on the international implications of Americas debtor status. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He stared at the ramshackle barn and the peeling paint on the weathered house, sights that should have been entirely foreign to him, but weren’t. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It was too new, too foreign, and I did not know what to be or how to be. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z While it is certain that she was extremely bright, she was truly exceptional when it came to learning foreign languages. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He was brown and his clothes had a foreign look. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That's one of the bonuses of moving to a foreign country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That was such a foreign concept to Percy, so not who he was, he almost couldn’t process the slur. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The presence of foreign girls at breakfast did not compensate for the lack of hot water in his room. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Stalin began to evacuate the Soviet government and told foreign embassies to leave as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the background, just audible, a woman’s voice was half singing, half chanting, but the lyrics seemed to be in a foreign tongue. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor had yellow hair on his arms and a big face and sounded foreign. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There has been much,' he continued, 'which has impli- citly or otherwise criticized - it is not so strong a word - criticized the foreign policy of my country.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She was taught to read the Bible, play tennis, and use a typewriter, which was the only useful thing she was left with after all those years in a foreign language. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his continuing ill health, Huygens made a few more foreign trips, including another visit to London in 1689, when he met Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z More and more, Ralph became for them a funny set of ears that came up sometimes, a lesson about falling for foreign devils. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z On October 29, we again entered the Palace of Justice; again the crowds were large and excited; again the security was extremely tight; again the court was filled with dignitaries from many foreign embassies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But she’d found that people didn’t always recognize her navy uniform with its gold ATA pilot’s wings, or make sense of them, and Scotland was as foreign a land as France to Maddie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This was a new city and a foreign country, the city of Vanity Fair and Great Expectations. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When her mother said there had been no light for two weeks, it seemed suddenly foreign to her, and home itself a distant place. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In a foreign land they were married, made a home for themselves, filled it with books and chocolate, and lived happily ever after. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z When the doctor arrives, I remember his foreign voice and nice smell. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Mallory, whose auburn hair is curled in bouncing ringlets, smiles at me like I’m speaking a foreign language, and hands El a folder anyway. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The feeling—the epiphany—was a strange one, foreign and familiar at the same time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For others these ideas may have served as a way of accommodating themselves to the life of a campus so culturally foreign. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He went down the stairs and found the merchant waiting on a foreign couple, while two other customers walked about the shop, drinking tea from crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible she escaped to one of the giant communities still existing in foreign mountain ranges. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He’s always telling us that having a real conversation is the best way to learn a foreign language. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Why, doesn’t it mean—let me see, I’m not up in these foreign tongues—doesn’t it mean ‘God bless you’? Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Likely they’re foreign and don’t know about buying their drinks at the bar. Want to be waited on, I expect.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I like these foreign pictures because I can believe in them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was a tall girl of about his own age, very sallow, almost white-skinned; her mother, they said in the village, was from Osskil or some such foreign land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this place wasn’t so foreign after all. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Furthermore, all foreign scythes must register before crossing our border,’’ he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Everyone assumed I was fresh off the boat from a foreign land. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In America, in contrast, the great unwashed masses were increasingly foreign—and their genes, like their accents, were identifiably alien. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately I have an engagement. Au revoir, madamoiselle,” and Laurie bent as if to kiss her hand, in the foreign fashion, which became him better than many men. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She often invited me over to eat with her foreign friends, and I always looked forward to meeting all the interesting guests. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the law would forbid Germans from listening to foreign news or other “impure” or “un-German” broadcasts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For Henrietta, walking into Hopkins was like entering a foreign country where she didn’t speak the language. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The speech received wide publicity in both the local and foreign press, and was printed, virtually word for word, in the Rand Daily Mail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her lips, very scarlet, in the foreign fashion, were parted just a little. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Armin shouted, and I shrank back, believing we were being cursed in some foreign tongue. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z After that one time the Prime Minister got shot in the head, there was a big old crackdown on the blacks, which was absolutely necessary, but resulted in misunderstandings at many of the foreign embassies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove downtown to the Public Library to read the foreign newspapers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I stood on the familiar front porch, surrounded by foreign wicker furniture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Dad did know all the rules about visas and work permits and green cards, because when students and researchers come to the university from foreign countries, they need one or another of them. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Victarion had seen such men in foreign cities, tending their sacred fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The idea of parents fighting was so foreign to Grace. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “This was all foreign writing. It didn’t say anything.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I might have been anyone, might have been trying to speak in a foreign language. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the supreme example of Jefferson’s greater flexibility occurred on the foreign policy front. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It also helped that foreign policy was the one area where he believed the nation should speak with one voice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Despite the emergency, two foreign consuls were playing tennis on the grass courts out back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Privacy in the way we think of it today was entirely foreign to us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The feudal idea of war for ransom had been squashed in Britain, but not abroad, and now the foreign ransom-hunters were after the newly settled King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They implored me to let them; and when I said it was Dr. Van Helsing’s wish that either he or I should sit up, they asked me quite piteously to intercede with the “foreign gentleman.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Deliberate listening to foreign radio stations...Willfully distributing newscasts of foreign radio stations...Conspiracy to commit high treason. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The agent for the book sent to my hotel a contract dealing with foreign publication rights which needed Malcolm X’s and my signature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Wolf spoke with a strange, slightly foreign accent. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Helmick had identified William as the head of the SIS, and she had coyly suggested that the agency was breaking foreign codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z So if he has foreign partners, I don’t think they are of a very high class. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the crowd from this side of the demonstration was as foreign to me as seeing the earth from outer space. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She looked scared and mumbled in a foreign accent, “I do not know.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Some faces Bran had never seen before, others he knew as well as his own, yet they all seemed equally foreign to him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Back in his private room, Stalin told his foreign secretary, “We’ll have to have a talk with Kurchatov today about speeding up our work.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In return, every grant of foreign aid goes straight to Mobutu himself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All foreign noses were higher than Chinese ones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z President Eisenhower told Stassen he was “quite sure the Soviets have never given any thought to any inspection plan which involved the presence ... of anything like twenty to thirty thousand foreign inspectors.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Why don’t foreign aid clinics help them, Baba?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z No longer did they try to fit themselves, like paper-doll figures, behind trappings so foreign to their actual lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Men,” he said, “it is exactly one hundred and thirty- eight years since the Marines fought in Tripoli and first raised an American flag over foreign soil.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A hit meant duplicating the last three figures of the Stock Exchange’s printed daily total of U.S. domestic and foreign sales. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Objects hung from their belts, some familiar, most completely foreign. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Wherever Farmer walked in the city he felt the presence of the tontons macoutes, Baby Doc’s infamous secret police, who hid behind dark glasses and seemed to shadow foreign visitors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He was furious; she could see the muscles of his face taut beneath his white skin, and he roared at the fairy woman in their foreign tongue. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Parents have to learn how to raise their kids in a foreign land. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The foreign feeling in her core was demanding she leave; Mama’s body begged her to stay. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z For a prince should have two fears: one internal, concerning his subjects; the other external, concerning foreign powers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “You know last Saturday when Chika and Bose brought their children, I was just thinking that Nigerians here really forgive so much from their children because they have foreign accents. The rules are different.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She worked in Spain during the Civil War as a foreign correspondent and got very badly treated by the Republicans, hence her pro-Fascist bent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Though there had been no military reaction, there had been a public relations uproar in many foreign capitals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t care nothing ’bout no foreign language. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “If you had any foreign bodies in your legs they would set up an inflammation and you’d have fever.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Nothing in all my hooks about foreign places had described a scene like this before me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The secretary of state, in charge of foreign affairs, was considered the most influential cabinet member, more essential than the vice president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We’re having him to Christmas dinner because he’s foreign, he’s far from home, he will be lonely, and they don’t even have Christmas in his country. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Like the Stasi in East Germany, much of the KGB's work in Russia had nothing to do with chasing foreign spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was arranged by holding up the shoulders, that the patient should see personally some of the larger foreign bodies through the machine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It says that Congress shall have the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They especially feared unconditional surrender, which would allow foreign soldiers to take over their country with no conditions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With a foreign debt now in the billions, any hope that was left for our Independence is handcuffed in debtor’s prison. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A foreign diplomat told a reporter, “You can’t believe it’s possible that human beings can be so regimented or that, in such a short time, an entire nation could have become so war-minded.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, Celia thinks, her husband will be buried in stiff, foreign earth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I met that morning in a safe flat in a white suburb with various members of the local and foreign press, and I once again called the stay-at-home “a tremendous success.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On almost all the disputes over domestic and foreign policy in the 1790s Adams and Jefferson had found themselves on different sides. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His warrior’s face with its expertly carved lines speaks its elegance in a language as foreign to them as Lingala. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1947, India became the first British colony since the United States to break free from foreign rule. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Hence Japanese food-producing companies are not exposed to either domestic or foreign competition, and they don’t learn the best international methods for producing food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I must have slept through last night and all of today after seeing the foreign doctor. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A foreign voice was now speaking over the radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He also envisioned a fleet of large birchbark canoes paddled by Indians in deerskin and feathers and recommended that various foreign watercraft be moored in the fair’s harbor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We get a lot of foreign tourists here,” said the only girl besides Lindsey, who was tall and thoroughly Abercrombified in her tight tank top. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z ‘In some different country than this one—in a foreign place?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The last of the foreign life forms was abandoning ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It has always depended on handouts from foreign governments, and if they end, the Kim dynasty would probably collapse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z These young people showed an indifference toward the war, disrupted youth service obligations, and listened illegally to foreign radio broadcasts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And this woman was so old, even her dialect was foreign to me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph had noticed by then that she was pretty, or figured she must be, as about half the men with affairs to discuss with her didn’t seem to be foreign students. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His cousin delivers fish wrapped in foreign newspapers, and he hears the Germans aren’t doing well in their war against Russia. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For Jefferson, all specific decisions about American foreign policy occurred within the context of this overarching, indeed almost cosmic, pattern. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The man’s voice was low and pleasant; he had a foreign accent. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Washington sympathized with whites who recoiled at “the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He carried it with him everywhere, even into foreign embassies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His brother repeated the word like it was foreign, then shook his head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They learned biology, African history, math, physics and a foreign language. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His whole body had gone rigid; his hand in mine felt foreign. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z You couldn’t supply foreign warships with fuel, for instance, and you couldn’t ship guns to foreign armies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Is this where they arrest boys whose sisters listen to foreign radio stations? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “This whole tournament’s supposed to be about getting to know foreign wizards and making friends with them!” said Hermione hotly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Both American and foreign students utilized him as their prototype for human development, spiritual dedication, and equality. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He doubted whether the republican principles planted by the founding generation would grow in foreign soil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people, he had succeeded in becoming a recluse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I loved the way he wrote: While I understood all the words, they still seemed foreign. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z These local monopolies are reinforced by the Japanese government, which obstructs the import of foreign processed food by imposing a 10-day quarantine, among other restrictions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Right there in the main case, next to the trays of gingerbread men and fruit tarts and odd-looking foreign cookies, sat a platter piled four stories high. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z But Linus knew better than to expect more than confused anger from the self- made California millionaires whose knowledge of foreign policy was formed largely by the Los Angeles Times. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As she grew older the group, the herd, which is any collection of children, began to sense what adults felt, that there was something foreign about Cathy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought I detected a slight foreign accent. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I know it’s hard to pronounce, foreign, unlovely to those who don’t understand—a peculiar jumble of unmatched consonants. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z What he was seeing right before him were real enemies, foreign ones, the most awful ones, the cruel German-speaking kind. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Sarah thinks they go out to romantic dinners and take ballroom dance lessons or see black-and-white foreign movies with subtitles and deep meanings. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the rooms were sumptuous, as befitted the first foreign delegation ever welcomed beyond the Cusp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For all their beauty there was something sombre about them, funereal; they were like the wreaths, stiff and artificial, that you see beneath glass cases in a foreign churchyard. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Take this entry on noun plurals, from, of all books, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: Nouns derived from foreign languages form plurals in different ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Like well-run factories, cells are thrifty; part of the cellular machinery chops up and reuses anything that is floating around inside, including bits of the cell and foreign invaders such as viruses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That's the most implausible aspect of the whole story, as there's no way the bells of France would allow a foreign worker to fly in and take their jobs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She went to Chinatown three times a week, thinking of it as one more foreign quarter of Shanghai, like the British concession, or the French. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks at me like I’m a foreign object, which strikes me as both the same and different from how it used to be. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice had grown soft, and he had merged many accents and dialects into his own speech, so that his speech did not seem foreign anywhere. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You see, doctor?” he pointed to one of the foreign bodies which showed spherical and clear against the light. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Since the turn of the century, Africans owed their educational opportunities primarily to the foreign churches and missions that created and sponsored schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No one would get a phone call, or a telegram, or have to look through a glass window in some cold and foreign basement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the Domino Theory, which dominated American foreign policy during the Cold War, countries were like dominos standing on end. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Minor inaccuracies may cause reactions in which neighboring cells are recognized as foreign, and done in. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She repeated the foreign name to herself, holding her American baby in her arms. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Afrikaner was traditionally hostile to Africans learning English, for English was a foreign tongue to the Afrikaner and the language of emancipation to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Latin was also a dead language, a tongue foreign to most Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted him to have a European experience and sharpen his use of foreign languages, which she kept insisting was so vital for his education. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The marble tiles, immaculate white hallways, and enormous windows devoid of dust or fingerprints—none of this was foreign anymore. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Her hair was pulled away from her face, which was this incredible golden brown—mulatto, Eurasian, Hispanic, some exotic foreign blend. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The pieces she sees—they are like foreign objects. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I thought the soldiers would be against such black-market foreign exchange, but they didn’t seem to care. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Ritchie simply looked at me as if I was speaking in a foreign tongue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The one who looks at me with distance in his eyes, like I’m some strange foreign thing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like switching from passively watching a film in a foreign language to actively debating in one’s mother tongue. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Their faces command relatives in foreign lands—“Send money”—and posterity forever—“Put food in front of this picture.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of Hamza in his hospital bed in the foreign clinic. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “There are aid agencies and foreign clinics to care for them.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It even hosted an Americanization class, helping foreign employees prepare for the citizenship test. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They pulled down the maps which rolled up like shades and pointed out foreign countries with the rubber-tipped pointer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "Listening to foreign radio stations is forbidden," continues the newscaster. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z But in addition to local news and chronicles, some foreign advertising creeps in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If he lived closer to the border, he might be able to pick up a foreign station from England or Switzerland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The most outspoken members of the community refused to internalize the contradiction, openly equating the foreign racists America was moved to destroy with the American racists it chose to abide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They were far more highly prized than any other objects that were brought out of the tombs, because private collectors and a few foreign museums paid very handsomely for them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was responsible for our foreign branches. You must have known that.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Now, years later, I was there in a role foreign to my youth’s wildest imaginings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In his youth he’d been a devoted scholar of foreign languages, the owner of an impressive collection of dictionaries. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I listen as the air is filled with a foreign language, spoken in haphazard bursts. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The second section of this first draft that Washington sent to Hamilton focused on the foreign policy issues that had dominated his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When you need support, some guy singing in a foreign language is a lousy substitute. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They kidnapped three foreign aid workers and murdered them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These foreign holdings or “cleruchies” not only put underused land back into taxable cultivation, but also afforded the king what was essentially a countrywide system of garrisons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “When I met you I was just a teenager and you were this, this man, from a world that was foreign to me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They seem to call to you from another place that you’ve accidentally tapped into, like a cell phone pulling in a conversation in some foreign language—yet somehow you understand it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But even I felt completely overwhelmed at times by the foreign sights, smells, and sounds of this ancient coastal city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In England, foreign secretary Anthony Eden said he “deeply regretted” the news, and then set about pressuring the French not to overreact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He spoke with a foreign accent, the same accent that the German soldiers always had in World War II movies. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why would you want to move so far away? And to such a foreign place?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes he takes me to restaurants, with checked tablecloths and candles stuck in Chianti bottles; sometimes to foreign films about Swedes and Japanese, in small uncrowded theaters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Our trip to Washington and Riley’s speech made the kids feel almost anything was possible, but the idea of going to college is completely foreign for a lot of my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Since I was enchanted with the creation of my own world, years had to pass before I reflected on Momma’s remarkable adjustment to that foreign life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nationalism has been tested in the people’s struggles and the fires of batde and found to be the only antidote against foreign rule and modem imperialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of loafers he had custom- made for the deputy foreign minister—who, Rasheed said, bought shoes only from him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Isatu’s not our child. Do you know how complicated it would be to take someone else’s child to a foreign country?” my father asked. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the threat of fire and weather and disease: Already foreign editors were asking who would dare attend the exposition given Chicago’s notorious problems with sewage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She remembered what Tiberinus had said: Find the altar of the foreign god. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’ve heard foreign visitors complain that the Congolese are greedy, naive, and inefficient. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I think maybe I am spouting a foreign language all the time these days, except that it is really my own language and I am just learning to speak it. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “A cat is a cat. There are no foreign cats, no Chinese cats, no capitalist cats, no Communist cats. Just cats.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had decided that St. Louis was a foreign country. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Lymphocytes are apparently informed about everything foreign around them, and some of them come equipped for fitting with polymers that do not exist until organic chemists synthesize them in their laboratories. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nurmi was touched by his apparent need for companionship: that his behavior was unlike that of any other cat she attributed to his foreign appearance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But once started, the flesh continued to coat the foreign body until it fell free in some tidal flurry or until the oyster was destroyed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Papi had not been able to get an American doctor's license—some hitch about his foreign education—and the money was running out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The chief says the country will go through some hard times and not have enough to eat as it stops accepting charities from foreign countries. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In India, Gandhi had been dealing with a foreign power that ultimately was more realistic and farsighted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t all that different from hers and James’s secret code, but somehow using symbols instead of letters made it seem more foreign and intimidating. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I imagined the truck full of stacks and stacks of foreign money, wondered if they had put the money in many cartons or in one huge carton, the size our fridge came in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The idea of having to speak a foreign language all the time was overwhelming, even for girls like me who'd studied English for years. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Elizebeth also had to search for signs of hostile actions—anything from a foreign warship laying mines to submarines behaving strangely off the American coastline. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As the trickle of foreign videos turned into a flood, North Korean police became alarmed and came up with new tactics to arrest people who watched them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This music is so familiar it does not seem foreign. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1939, the United States and other foreign countries closed their doors to Jewish refugees. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Now, with Billy speaking clearly and to the point, Rumfoord’s ears wanted to treat the words as a foreign language that was not worth learning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though Incheon was close to Seoul, most people despised the tyrannical old guy with the foreign wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z For the well-to-do Viennese of the late-eighteenth century onwards, however, including composers like Haydn and Mozart, using the terms ‘gypsy’, ‘Hungarian’ or ‘Turkish’ was like saying ‘random foreign music by poor people’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Knowing not to sit on the furniture, she crouched, instead, in doorways and hallways, and observed gestures and manners in the same way a person tends to watch traffic in a foreign city. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Buildings cast long shadows, and familiar shops looked foreign. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then, abruptly, a needle of a foreign emotion slices through our raging tempest, a thread of worry from him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There are foreign people everywhere, and not only Syrians. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He found her different, entirely foreign to the image that her smell brought on, as if she were someone else. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We ran like venadas, frightened deer, fleeing all the way down the hill toward the safety of foreign woods and eerie dirt paths. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Quite the pair, those two foreign fellas. The older one doesn’t have a button left on him.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His voice has a foreign edge to it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “This is the four hundreds room, home of foreign languages. Here, HALEY, you can learn all about your American heritage.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “First of all, this yang means sun, not foreign. And this yang-san means sun umbrella, parasol, not foreign umbrella.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the boys have a mind to dean windshields all day on the corner, or to beg from the foreign journalists. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at her like she was speaking a foreign language. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Sensing imminent danger, thousands of Jewish scientists migrated to foreign countries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was disappointed to discover that the hospital was staffed mostly with white, foreign doctors, with little if any effort placed on training Haitian doctors to treat Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Speaking of redundancies, think twice before using expressions like advance reservations, final conclusion, foreign import, free gift, prerecorded, refer back, or safe haven. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Animals from foreign lands, preserved in formaldehyde or embalmed and stuffed with sawdust. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It seemed particularly unfair to them that white immigrants new to America, born in foreign lands, could vote and could find higher-paying jobs in manufacturing industries—rights that native-born blacks were denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The concept of voting was foreign to us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I sit and wait upstairs, knocking the fleas off my arms and legs, wishing I had Dad here, thinking of my litde brother and his foreign name, Alphonsus, an affliction of a name. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z How your home wouldn’t even feel like home anymore, just another foreign place to read about. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z White blood cells and other cells of ours actively seek out and kill foreign microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked strange, too, like the missionary ladies at our school who were insolent and bossy in their too-tall shoes, foreign clothes, and short hair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but shouldn’t you be moaning and groaning in some foreign language?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He said we had evolved the policy of nonracialism for good reasons and he did not think that we should alter our policy because it did not suit a few foreign leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true, she wore strange foreign clothes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But as Huxley and the others battled on, Charles stayed home at Down, working on a new edition of the book, with some revisions, and arranging for foreign publication as well. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He says my name like it’s a foreign word. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It comes for no reason or from a geography of the spirit that is an untracked and foreign land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is because of this aspect, I think, that we most wish for them to be something foreign. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Its a criminal offense now to tune into a foreign broadcast. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Tell me,” he said, turning to me, “how did you get this foreign music?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I don’t see how putting on a suit and singing in a foreign language makes you that, but whatever. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Fortunately these were in Italian, and so the obvious boredom of the foreign guests did not need to be construed as impoliteness. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He was unforgivably a foreigner then, foreign to them, foreign to me, foreign to everyone but Mama, who sat next to him smiling with pleased modesty. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Washburn will request a special visa from the foreign ministry to send Lucinda to the States to help out his friend. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She scanned the pages quickly, not reading the foreign English symbols, seeming to search deliberately for nothing in particular. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At last he had braved the channel to reach this foreign, northern land. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There were opportunities to travel to foreign countries with contingents of ‘minority group scholars.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was like a cold wind blowing through the firelit room, like a black bird carried by on a storm from foreign lands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He felt like he was in a foreign country. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He had acquired the concessions for other mines, was exporting fruit to foreign countries, had founded a construction firm, and Tres Marias, which had greatly expanded, was now the best hacienda in the area. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One might marvel at the insanity of the situation: A mother sends her sixteen-year-old daughter alone with a seventeen-year-old boy out into a foreign city famous for its permissiveness. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Anthony DePalma, a veteran foreign and domestic correspondent, spotted an important twist in the destiny of immigrants, who loom so large in the great American myth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Whatever, once we have imagined it, foreign and therefore hostile, it is not to be petted. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe that my talent with a foreign language was the only quality I had that impressed Dolores. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was some sort of a foreign accent there, something harsh and guttural, and she seemed to have trouble pronouncing the letter w. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z No longer would people ask me, as I had been asked before, if I were a foreign student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Few foreigners are so foreign as I, Lord Tibe. I am very grateful for kindnesses.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I shouted out “Marc” hoping it would force my father to come out and greet me, but even my own voice was beginning to sound foreign to me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They were called delis, and there were foreign symbols in the windows, and underneath them the word kosher. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I’d forgotten about them, these other Americans who were foreign to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It made Professor Nicholas Green suggest he apply for the foreign research grant at Nsukka, where he could write in a university environment. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z What's more, Adams let it be known that he was considering either Jefferson or Madison to head the delegation—in effect, including the leadership of the Republican party in the shaping of foreign policy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Many resigned out of disgust and moved to foreign countries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He claims he’s gotten back involved with the diamond business in the Congo and has many foreign partners, but you still have to remind him to take a bath on any given day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some man came by to see Lice last night,” she said, “just before he ran off. A big bald-headed guy with a weird foreign accent—French or Russian or something.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It was like . . . like . . . like a foreign country! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I can still hear his upbeat foreign accent advising me to be my best self around the opposite sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The young women in her circle comported themselves in a foreign ritual, undecipherable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They were not outlaws because they were murderers, or for any reason like that They were Saxons who had revolted against Uther Pendragon’s conquest, and who refused to accept a foreign king. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They say that he liberated us from foreign domination and gave us independence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was quiet, subdued, reduced—a banished man living off his wits in a foreign land. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The sight of my foreign skin seems to freeze their sensibilities. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Before apartheid, any black South African who received a formal education was likely taught by European missionaries, foreign enthusiasts eager to Christianize and Westernize the natives. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Come on, what kind of person sits in front of his locker, with his eyes shut, barefoot, and mumbling in some foreign language? He was practically begging for it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z When I looked back, he was still there, looking soberly toward the foreign world to which I had gone. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Next I have three pages of foreign words from my various books, all of which have to be written down, memorized and read aloud. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And nothing between them but the words of another alien, painfully translated from native sounds to foreign. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At first Bubber was stumped, and it was funny to watch his face while she talked the foreign language. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She showed up at my house one day, slim and tanned, as if she’d just returned from a vacation at a fancy foreign spa. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says it’s like going away on our holidays to a warm foreign place like Italy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My Uncle Fan would not listen to foreign radio broadcasts or worry about psychological pressure. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Did these images from foreign lands take hold in her imagination instead? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Huygens became one of the first foreign members of the Royal Society on a brief visit to London in 1663. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The document stated, “We may borrow . . . from foreign ideologies, but we reject the wholesale importation of foreign ideologies into Africa.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed I fear we would have lingered on indefinitely had not our foreign friends prepared a more highly spiced entertainment. I think I should never willingly cease drifting in that dreamland.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To my left was a darker room, another sitting room, this one filled with foreign furniture: dark green leather sofas, paintings with hunting dogs, armchairs, and mahogany desks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After centuries of misery, slavery, injustice, and foreign interference, the people of Haiti had claimed their country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Although Wagner regarded all foreign influences as potentially threatening to German purity, he singled out the Jews for particular venom. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was not so much taller, but bigger somehow, foreign. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Some man came by to see Lice last night,” she said, “just before he ran off. A big bald-headed guy with a weird foreign accent—French or Russian or something.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The pronouncements of foreign governments, their policies, plans, and acts were calculated and weighed in relation to the lives of people about me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But he always liked to get visitors alone in the billiard-room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z As a medical doctor, Regina knew more about the risks than he did, but Bobby was afraid of a foreign object being implanted in his mother’s body and what it might do to her. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They expected certain things of her, and forgave certain things from her, because she was foreign. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I notice Mom watching us curiously, intently, not totally comprehending what she’s seeing, like we’re some foreign movie with no subtitles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z All foreign men had been staying overnight on boats where they would be safer. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His son, Lenin, had moved to Delhi, where he worked as a services contractor for foreign embassies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In films and on the vaudeville stage blacks were portrayed as comic dolts, stupid and lazy, unable to speak proper English, much less sing fluently in foreign languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The words were not foreign and the letters hooked into one another in ways that ought to have made perfect sense. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Was this another foreign custom, like shaking hands? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She pets my skin like it’s foreign to her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been so in her head, his voice was a surprise, his concerned face a foreign arrangement of skin and muscle. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Colin rolled over in the foreign bed, and for a few slow seconds, as he squinted into the darkness, he felt good. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Yes, urged foreign minister Shigenori Togo, because America’s atomic bomb “drastically alters the whole military situation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The deep green bushes and trees everywhere seemed foreign, and it was strange to look out the train window and not see mountains anywhere. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place—like she wanted to do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It would be a help, Kira thought, because it all seemed so new, so foreign. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know where to find a van,” Aunty Uju mumbled, with a helplessness foreign to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Each word is a code she must decipher, a foreign language, a streak of gunshot. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So many foreign students come to do their graduate work here, and so few American students major in mathematics, that in many departments American graduate students are a minority. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They think I have a disease from foreign parts because my father used to be in Africa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It will be very largely distributed throughout foreign countries, and is one of those trivial things by which these people will judge the artistic standard of the Fair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rest of the Farewell Address was then devoted to foreign policy, calling for strict American neutrality and diplomatic independence from the tangled affairs of Europe. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She’s never forgiven me for doing better in an English class when I was “foreign,” and she was American. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The snow inside the Nest began to melt and the robot’s sensors began to thaw, and when she was ready, she climbed out through the hole in the roof and into a bright, foreign landscape. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z This, in his opinion, is the biggest difference between them, a thing far more foreign to him than the beautiful house she’d grown up in, her education at private schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Fischer, on the advice of the RJF Committee, wrote to Iceland’s foreign minister, David Oddsson, and requested a residence permit, which was forwarded to him immediately. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu preferred Jomo’s solemn ways and false stories, but Harrison, with his insistent bad English, was mysteriously full of knowledge of things that were foreign and different. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Baba says Americans have a hard time understanding foreign concepts, which always makes me want to shout, I’m not a foreign concept! A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There are lessons in foreign languages, social customs, literature, martial arts, the use of firearms, disguises, various accents, methods of forgery, and fine points of the law. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Truly you are magnificent,” Maddox said, repeating the compliment again in a foreign tongue. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I told the chief that these foreign politicians were not dictating our policy, but merely saying that they did not understand it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She has to remain in the air lock until the filters have a chance to purify the foreign air. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The tabloids waxed nostalgic for the good old days of WWII, when the enemy all spoke a foreign language and the army went somewhere else to fight. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At a White House meeting, the president’s top foreign policy advisor put it bluntly: “Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This system turned out to be more reliable than working out complicated arrangements with the nervous ambassadors of the foreign democracies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I desperately need to believe that somewhere else these other, foreign people exist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She is feeling her way through something foreign. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They were concerned and excited over the approaching football games, but I had in my immediate past raced a car down a dark and foreign Mexican mountain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared and stared at the checkbook; it became more foreign by the moment. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z AND THEN, one day all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were temples too, where sailors came to sacrifice to foreign gods, cheek by jowl with pillow houses where women called down from balconies to meri below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She still spoke Chinese with her parents, but even then foreign words were substituted for those that did not come easily. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Huge live oaks shaded the valley, and the earth had a richness and a greenness foreign to this part of the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A republic armed with its own citizens is less likely to come under the rule of one of its citizens than a city armed with foreign soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to miss you,” I say, speaking in that foreign language again, the one that I’m learning is my own.“You are so sweet,” Pam goes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the innkeep at the Merchant’s House had warned him that traveling afoot would taint them in the eyes of foreign captains and the native-born Volantenes alike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He holds a piece of paper up to his face, moving his lips, feeling his way among the foreign words. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “So all that I can sort of accept. But Muslim? It’s totally foreign to our tradition. They’re outsiders.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, the KGB had begun marking suspected foreign agents with an invisible radioactive dust that could be picked up with radiation sensors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Others would say “Are you from Jamaica?” as though only foreign blood could explain such bounteous hair that did not thin at the temples. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Heart of the moon, jewel of the sea, depending on which foreign language you’re using. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Establishing counterrevolutionary ties and listening to foreign radio? It must be Fan Wen-chong who told them,” Grandma said slowly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I opted to put us both on the road almost immediately after we got there, to save both of us the pointless aggravation and strain to try and fit into a foreign mainstream group. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no longer a supply of foreign laborers to mold steel, unload lumber ships, or slaughter cattle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Why would a full-grown man place a foreign object into his mouth, especially if it was brown and discovered in a rarely used suitcase? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe. Un poco. Don’t forget: I saw your report card. You could use a little help in the foreign languages department.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z If you were too obviously foreign, as Bruno was, you risked being beaten up in the street. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I thought of my mother’s foreign eyes, staring at me from across the room: I thought of the cool, indifferent eyes of the others. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Five thousand yellow chairs stood on the red-carpeted speaker’s platform, and in these chairs sat businessmen dressed in black, and foreign commissioners and clerics in scarlet, purple, green, and gold. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z On every other continent as well, certain native societies have proved very receptive, adopted foreign ways and technology selectively, and integrated them successfully into their own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She picked up a hundred dollar bill and turned the foreign object over in her hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The dull beat made by that foreign drum carried no message and certainly offered no cause for celebration. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Now his actions make him even more foreign to them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A gray day in a foreign city where he stood in a window and watched the street below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Yankees were the foreign threat a century ago; today it was the Communists. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His mother would rush and grab him and, with a foreign curse and a shaken fist at the frosted door, hurry him out of the torture chamber. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She figured that Charles and Andrew had probably missed something important in the foreign languages room because they’d spent too much time talking to “these awesome mannequins” that told them all about their “American heritage.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z And the same principle also explains the parallel urge to demonize them, since any discussion of their achievement is also an implicit conversation about the distinctive character of American imperialism, both foreign and domestic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Now that she had more time on her hands, she enjoyed making elaborate foreign dishes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With each foreign athlete’s victory, an abbreviated version of his or her national anthem was played. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “White circles represent pure German blood. Circles with black indicate the proportion of foreign blood. Notice group two, number five.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The government had already informed the foreign press that I was to be set free tomorrow and felt they could not renege on that statement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy was strong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had agreed to international mediation, and on April 13 a dele-gation arrived led by Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, and Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, guns were a foreign invention and grew to be despised, as did other things foreign in Japan after 1600. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had never been quite sure about Major de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z From the way they keep throwing suspicious looks at Mama, it’s clear they don’t think anyone can replace their teacher, especially not some foreign lady in a hijab. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Seventh grade had sports teams and foreign languages. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z All foreign lands are inaccessible except to servicemen; they are vague, distant, and sealed off as though behind a curtain of plastic. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A foreign mother and child assuming themselves in charge, suddenly slapped down to nothing by what they all saw us to be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But here she could smell a larger body of water—something huge and foreign and frightening. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tired of wandering about alone, and Amy’s familiar presence seemed to give a homelike charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a part. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She realized that until she understood the subtle nuances of foreign words, and could pronounce them like a native, she could not hope to sing effectively in other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z According to her, there wasn’t even a war out there in the provinces, just skirmishes against troublemakers stirred by people she called foreign provocateurs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z So when Ms. G. started talking about college, it was like a foreign language to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The Apollo Theater, the one on 42nd Street, showed foreign movies. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would Nna get away with that if he didn’t have a foreign accent?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A feeling completely foreign to him had arisen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you didn’t like foreign scythes,” she told him with a smirk. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Almost everything about the jungle felt new and foreign, but doing this felt like home; Mama had taught her years ago how to start a fire. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z This was an implicit rebuke to the Communist Party, which Lembede and many others, including myself, considered a “foreign” ideology unsuited to the African situation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had never contemplated the intervention of foreign military forces. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are other hungers. Hungers I don’t even understand, that are foreign to me.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z That mission continued, but now he had a new one: breaking into the secret messages of foreign powers whenever American security required it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the first day of her disappearance—the date was October 12, 1976— she spent a day waiting in lines at the offices of the Zairean foreign ministry, trying to get her papers straight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The same civil and religious institutions that kept Egypt stable could serve to focus domestic resentment over foreign domination. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The foreign, almost obsolete word comes to mind. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In truth, the fact that you were in the class likely meant you came from a difficult background, homes where parents fought or took drugs or beat their kids or maybe spoke a foreign language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The lenses I’m wearing feel cold, as if they were something foreign and hostile. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I lay beside the bed, fearful for his health; determined he should recover; and conscious of a foreign satisfaction, perhaps even pleasure, that awaited a ripe moment to grow from bud to bloom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Remember when you have visited some foreign area and some other traveler has asked. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Here she was, a young Norwegian in a foreign land, suddenly having to face all alone the very gravest problems and responsibilities. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And the tent, that blurry bright three-dimensional A, was so foreign to the cotton field, that it might just get up and fly away before my eyes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is like all those foreign women. She feels she can be alone. And she smokes too.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In small spoonfuls, it went down smooth with a glass of milk and it made me feel full, which had become a foreign concept. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Bit by bit, the bow began to seem less foreign to her, though she knew she was far from being as skilled as Pol was. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “By the end of the meeting,” Haldeman remembered, “Nixon was as angry as his foreign affairs chief. The thought that an alleged weirdo was blatantly challenging the president infuriated him.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He has preferred to lose with his own troops rather than to win with those of others, judging that to be no true victory which has been gained by means of foreign troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He made a short, foreign bow and left the dining car. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z First Ladies showed up in the news, having tea with the spouses of foreign dignitaries; they sent out official greetings on holidays and wore pretty gowns to state dinners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They were so completely foreign to his experience, I realized, that I must have seemed like an alien. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The courtroom was filled with domestic and international journalists, and dozens of representatives of foreign governments. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, her English was still just classroom English, a foreign language. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z You made sure the world heard about the beauty of maple sugar children, and the artfully tattooed backs of Black sailors venturing out to foreign places. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While many have kept their foreign flavor, others have adopted distinctly English pronunciations. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood staring at him from the doorway, her eyes blinking, her expression a total blank, like he had just spoken to her in a foreign language. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Like the books confiscated from foreign ships, the originals stayed in the library, and the former owners had to be content with a handsome set of copies. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He took it and held it up to the light and stared at it as if it were some foreign object. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Inside, the spectators’ gallery was full, and it was standing room only for the local and foreign press. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just when you think you can't lose any more freedoms, the Nazis find another to take away. Now it's against the law to listen to foreign radio." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t put it to my ear, the motion too foreign, so I placed it gently back in its metal cradle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I am wonderfully foreign in my own body. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Hailing from all fifty states and fifty-two foreign countries, the students were more intelligent and better prepared than he and his classmates had been, he told the parents in his quiet, deep voice. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It also required careful research by Meredith, particularly on foreign trips. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Shrouded in a sea-mist they walked the streets of a foreign city. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In Tamil he said, “The real question is, why is Piscine dallying with these foreign religions?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They must feel as if a giant wind suddenly picked them up in Pakistan, blew them across the globe, and set them down here in this foreign place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One such evening Burnham led a tour of the fair aboard an electric launch for a group that included John Root’s widow, Dora, and a number of foreign emissaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Priests come to the school to recruit us for the foreign missions, Redemptorists, Franciscans, Holy Ghost Fathers, all converting the distant heathen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Nothing was done about the clamor of the minority groups, and the regions were already competing so fiercely that some wanted separate foreign embassies. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He says after Independence the Americans will send foreign aid to help them make better houses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The electric launch carrying Burnham, Dora Root, and the foreign dignitaries cut silently through the lagoon, scattering the white city reflected upon its surface. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Mask blinks, some foreign emotion flickering across his eyes—surprise or shock, I can’t tell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Also in Detroit, Palmer’s agents, operating without warrants, had arrested every diner in a foreign restaurant and had imprisoned an entire orchestra. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Or in the foreign country of Norway by the gray winter ocean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Since 2002, the Beijing government had been attempting—with considerable success—to stop North Koreans from rushing into foreign embassies and consulates to seek asylum. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There were many foreign heads of state and prime ministers who had long taken note of this charismatic champion of the people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Critics said he had no right to speak on foreign affairs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Imports are defined as evil because they allowed foreign countries a way to invade Cambodia, not just physically but also culturally. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My packet of worksheets, my impending academic doom, the hospital, Dr. Katz, even Mom, it’s not that they feel far away; it’s that they feel like a foreign language, an alien planet. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He lay silent, frowning at me as though I were speaking a foreign language. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In the bed at night she planned about how she was an orphan and lived with Mister Singer—just the two of them in a foreign house where in the winter it would snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Each of us knew only too well that listening to the foreign radio and spreading the news was punishable by death,” said Henry Metelmann. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The biggest reader of the three, he was the most likely to know vocabulary words and foreign phrases. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Until that time I had never heard a foreign language spoken and I used to linger at the door of the corner grocery to hear the odd sounds that Jews made when they talked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After they examine Hamza, the foreign medics with their interpreter come to our home. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Little regiments of children lurked by the doorways, apparently for the express purpose of accosting foreign missionaries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, ghosts and — most particularly — guests,” said Dumbledore, beaming around at the foreign students. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Yes, a trip to Akron, Ohio, can feel intoxicatingly foreign—sophisticated, even—in that “anything that’s different from me is exotic” kind of way. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The words felt strange and foreign upon my tongue. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But everything has turned around so fast, like a magician’s trick: foreign hands moved behind the curtain and one white King was replaced with another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside her Mo read on and on while the orange moon shone in the foreign sky outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was fluent in the knowledge of foreign things, especially of American things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It’s only the boys, and not all of them either, since most of the parents don’t approve of learning French or the foreign element in general. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention the US currency they’ll figure we have in our safes from our foreign donors.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for the children to come home was completely foreign to his nature. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme are regions in which food production certainly began with an abrupt arrival of foreign people as well as of foreign crops and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I was being painted not simply as an outsider but as fully “other,” so foreign that even my language couldn’t be recognized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He has the misfortune of adoring foreign words without knowing what they mean. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It seemed empty and foreign, even though it wasn’t very long since he’d left. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The refugee camps were run by foreign aid groups, but it was the government that permitted them to operate. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “They came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I climbed the stairs to the second floor and went around behind the foreign language section to the reading room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But one man said, “I wouldn’t go to no foreign country and shoot up poor people.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The idea of paying for things in other ways, through trade, felt entirely foreign to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Oho? English schoolboys in our enlightened 1980s cannot read a book in a foreign language?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Aunty Onenu liked to say, “Most of my staff are foreign graduates while that woman at Glass hires riffraff who cannot punctuate sentences!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He has white skin and a foreign accent. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “So what if I never listened to foreign radio broadcasts? They’ll stop beating me if I confess to it, won’t they? ‘Leniency to those who confess, and severity to those who resist.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It gave her house the foreign air she liked to affect, for she was the core, the very heartbeat, of the city’s literary world. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “How will you become civilized? America does not honor Confucius. America is foreign, so foreign.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The entire continent was now a vast American manor, within which the people could expand unrestricted by foreign opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Strange specimens peeked from the stacked crates: preserved lizards and snakes, foreign butterflies, live crocodiles, even an elephant! The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was a darkness in his eyes that felt cold and foreign, like the gaps between the stars. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They were the race whose barbarous, cunning, valiant defiance had been enslaved, long centuries before, by the foreign people whom Arthur represented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Confidence is a foreign concept to me, and saying how I feel, out loud, is horribly unnatural. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But then I feel embarrassed that “nice” feels like such a foreign concept. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A small country, forced to live by its wits, its foreign policy contained a strong pacifist element. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did Mark Antony hold the traditional Roman ceremony on foreign soil, he presented the war spoils to Cleopatra instead of to the people of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Everyone’s parents in my neighborhood work in factories, so the idea of a “business trip” is foreign to me, but I don’t ask any questions so he doesn’t think I’m stupid. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes and let my fingers rest on the baby’s lids and held them there as Nicasia continued her foreign prayer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Another rumor circulating in the streets of Philadelphia caught Jefferson’s ear: Washington had leaked the news that he opposed Adams’s foreign policy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then Koffi named it, that foreign emotion in her mother’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Laboring, this woman who had carried her child as a foreign growth that sickened her every day, expelled it at last. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe having a mom with a foreign accent makes paying attention to Mrs. Hameed easier for me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The colonial architecture felt foreign but also crisp and unimposing compared to the Gothic pinnacles of Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mostly, though, it seemed he was just making noise in general, surfacing on cable shows to offer yammering, inexpert critiques of Barack’s foreign policy decisions and openly questioning whether he was an American citizen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If I suited Pop’s fancy, I might be invited to one of her sherry parties and meet her current crop of foreign girls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z How can we sing the songs of the Lord in a foreign land?’” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She got arrested three times during college for protesting foreign policy in El Salvador. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “Foreign radio! How could we listen to foreign radio? We haven’t had a short-wave radio for thirty years, since the Japanese invaded. Fan’s lying!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Taliban have become an irritation to foreign governments.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The forest is foreign, an import, Lily tells me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The stern horizon-fenced plains of the Panhandle are foreign to the little wooded hills and sweet streams in the Davis Mountains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her reputation as a foreign temptress was well established; using her powers to bring about the general’s destruction came as no surprise. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He did not treat the rich foreign merchant differently from the servant who shaved him and the peddlers, from whom he bought bananas and let himself be robbed of small coins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He crossed through the courtyard and entered the orchard, followed by all the inhabitants of the house as well as the foreign midget, who was smiling scornfully, these poor savages, oh God! The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything from how the foreign media would be treated to how the city would be decorated would be subject to rigorous planning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I did a paper on foreign men in Shakespeare. That was a such a long time ago, so it must be old-fashioned.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We dole out billions of dollars each year in foreign aid. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the foreign emissaries who would stop by to take a look, two Frenchmen were among the first. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They disavowed communism in ail its forms and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups” or “aliens” who had no natural place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the year that teachers select students to volunteer in a foreign country and do service learning projects. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Although Americans had stayed out of the war so far, they were eager to read reports about secret agents and the foiling of foreign plots. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I guessed, saying the most foreign word I could think of. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of the war brought an unceasing parade of high-profile visitors to Berkeley—military men, foreign dignitaries, important scientists from abroad—and a stream of invitations to join government commissions and corporate boards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He stared at the old man with the familiar face but foreign voice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “While Christians kneel before a white man! They are the flunkies of a foreign god. They are the nightmare of all non-white people.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Luno grunted out a harsh chuckle and rasped something in a foreign language. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Most students took a foreign language they might actually be able to use someday, like Mandarin, or Hindi, or Spanish. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Another foreign object in a day full of them. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The voices were odd, tinged with echo; some of the words were completely foreign—others felt familiar. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When the time was right, he would simply declare war on Egypt, a foreign power and Rome’s sworn enemy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Gram is uneasy, I can see her eyes flitting nervously around the room, like she's crossing the border into a really foreign country. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Fans came from all over, including foreign countries. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Funny how our minds cling to normalcy—desperately searching for the familiar in an environment that’s totally foreign. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The two valiant pilots of the 586th were sent gold watches through the Soviet minister of foreign affairs, said to be gifts from George VI, the king of England. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic so-called humorists, comprised Buster’s perpetual core of repeats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Together, over the next five years, they would remake American foreign policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then, on the sea-coast, within a foreign vessel’s reach, not an animal, not a fruit tree, had been left. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My skin that has never felt right instantly feels foreign. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I think of him as walking into marriage as into a park, in a foreign country, at night, unaware of the possibilities for damage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I joined the Corps, sir, so I could help defend white America from all foreign aggression.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a foreign language in her brain. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Apparently there was too much else for them to do, as wealthy visitors and foreign dignitaries began arriving in ever-greater numbers, shadowed by a swarm of pickpockets, thugs, and petty swindlers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These devices have been imported from foreign countries and thus are contaminated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An old man spoke in a foreign language. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He became persuasive and a little more foreign than he need have been. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the consequence: motherhood in a foreign land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It had nothing to do with music and foreign countries and the plans she made. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Illustrious ladies dressed in foreign clothes, as exotic and shimmering as fireflies, paraded themselves in the fashionable entertainment centers on the arm of the proud new economists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We have to learn it like a foreign language and this takes time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not understand everything. I am still unwell,” I said, hearing the contrast between my rough, foreign accent and her lilting, native one. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Called it geo-something or other that made it sound like they were speaking in a foreign tongue. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Some of it was paid back immediately because he agreed to be interviewed by a foreign journalist for a fee of $300. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s as foreign as a Spanish word I haven’t learned yet, but funny enough it comes pretty easily. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Few if any of the people in the village knew how to read or write, and the concept of education was still a foreign one to many. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gifts of the foreign magi, brought from afar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But for me, at age seven, the island was a country as foreign as India or Arabia would have been. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The former naiad was having harsh words with them in a foreign tongue, struggling in their grasp. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was held to be the center of the world, so many pilgrims came to it, from foreign countries as well as Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Its specialty was reading the coded cables of foreign diplomats who were based in the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When I was done, he said he did not like the idea of foreign politicians dictating policy to the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He questioned the competence of the U.S. military, the wisdom of U.S. foreign policy around the world and in the Middle East in particular. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The "other endeavor" sounded vague, so Dasch asked what kind of work he would be doing in the foreign office. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Maybe the foreign students were preparing a dramatic entrance. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She’d seen this before, foreign students who could read and write and speak a little, but who just couldn’t get the conversation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He said words in German that were foreign but ugly and spit on the ground at my feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “That foreign lady who had her,” Adele said in a disapproving voice. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Otho only wanted information about the foreign young lady. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Of course his first impulse was to say that he was only poor Arsheesh the fisherman's son and that the foreign lord must have mistaken him for someone else. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Instead, she fussed with him about reading the papers in bed, soiling their sheets with those poorly printed, foreign tabloids. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Is my money too foreign now? It’s dollars.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Imagine that — that they could see, in a foreign country, what was what! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The foreign kids are always there, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they’ll choke to death on too much American. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The room in which I found myself was so foreign that I might have stepped into another land. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Many of their closest friends and colleagues in Virginia had urged them to regard Hamilton’s program as clinching evidence of a foreign takeover of the national government that fully justified a withdrawal from the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He could feel the blood stinging his cheeks and running hotly in his arms, as though it were some foreign warm fluid taking over his body. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Here I was in a foreign country, and it was just like being at home. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems they’ve never been asked how they would react if someone from outside came in and interrupted their fighting with foreign fists. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They took him immediately to Thysville, which is about a hundred kilometers south of Léopoldville over the best road in this nation, repaved recently with a grant of foreign aid. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Night had hardly cooled the air at all; a strangely foreign wind blew through the village, hot and sandy, as if it were carrying the desert itself across the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I become their personal in- dfgena expert, their window into a foreign world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our clients were multinational corporations, bureaus of foreign governments, individuals of resource and connection. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She found the words, feeling for them like foreign objects in the dark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was like a perfume ad: foreign and dangerous and potentially degrading. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “This sound like a Titid question. Or else a foreign journalist question. But okay. I go try. “Political education. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “These are María’s very good friends. They met two summers ago when María did a high school foreign exchange program in Berlin. That girl has tremendous ambitions. All three of them.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z It would be in New York City or else in a foreign country. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z As they inspected the factory and learned the best way to cut the power supply, Dasch noticed that the "foreign labor" at the plant was actually the Nazi version of "slave labor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Mr. Kapasi was accustomed to foreign tourists; he was assigned to them regularly because he could speak English. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Had he confessed to listening to foreign broadcasts? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With the single, notable exception of the meerkats, there was not the least foreign matter on the island, organic or inorganic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Papa had told Hanako that one of the main purposes of an American consulate was to help and protect Americans in a foreign country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They sounded just like the articles in the foreign press, as if these killings had not happened and, even if they had, as if they had not quite happened that way. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I know that you will all extend every courtesy to our foreign guests while they are with us, and will give your whole-hearted sup port to the Hogwarts champion when he or she is selected. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My centrioles, basal bodies, and probably a good many other more obscure tiny beings at work inside my cells, each with its own special genome, are as foreign, and as essential, as aphids in anthills. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I only needed one look to see that this was an entirely foreign place. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Music came in and out of my ears, a syncopated half song that was familiar and foreign at the same time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Yourself,” I say, and he looks at me like I’ve spouted something in a foreign language. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Looking back over the full sweep of American history, one would be hard-pressed to discover a presidency more dominated by a single foreign policy problem and simultaneously more divided domestically over how to solve it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z After that, the big ones started to fall: large-scale resorts, fly-in luxury cottages, and wilderness getaways for stressed businessmen and their foreign investors. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “The Americans are now averse to foreign young men.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Ran away from here? ” the girl looked at him in disbelief, as if the idea was foreign. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I could only picture the gun, the block tower’s magic destroyed by foreign invasion. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I cover my mouth with my hand and force a giggle that sounds high-pitched and foreign, but judging by the smile she gives me, it was believable. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The idea of talking to a therapist about our feelings was foreign. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But as natural as zero seems to us today, for ancient peoples zero was a foreign—and frightening—idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Rather, I would be seen as someone foreign, or as someone other than American, or perhaps not be seen at all. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a foreign word, one I don’t know, but I know the tone of his voice: recognition, completion, something added to a set. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She sensed, in his reaction, a territorial dislike that was foreign to his nature; it surprised her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Our bodies are entangled, entwined, but Helene is foreign to me suddenly, unknowable as the heavens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z London speech no longer felt so foreign on my ear or on my tongue, and I'd learned to ignore the clamor of its streets. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Once in a while I had us living in a foreign country like New York, where she could adopt me and we could both stay our natural color. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt weird, like I was speaking a foreign language. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z One of the men told the chief that the only way we could possess such foreign cassettes was either by having looted them or if we were mercenaries. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z This was precisely the neutral foreign policy that both Washington and Adams had been urging for a decade and that Jefferson had condemned as a betrayal of the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He wanted the Romans to believe that in the Donations of Alexandria Mark Antony had given his vast holdings, present and future, to Egypt—a foreign power—and had not given the Romans anything. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z My mother looked at foreign magazines and clipped out pictures of dresses she liked, and then she went downstairs to discuss with the tailor how such a dress could be made using the materials available. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Marian performed before predominantly white audiences in the big cities of the Northeast and Midwest, reviewers who praised her voice often commented that she did not handle foreign languages well. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The father is foreign and very nice, and escorts me over the bridge. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But to his questions she gave proper answers; to do otherwise would be waste motion, and dissipated energy, and foreign to a good cat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A century ago, the foreign ending would have been preferred, but over the years we’ve given English plural endings to more and more foreign-derived words. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on, when Junior went to secondary school, he befriended some boys who taught him more about foreign music and dance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Lee looked at him and the brown eyes under their rounded upper lids seemed to open and deepen until they weren’t foreign any more, but man’s eyes, warm with understanding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Acre wasn’t part of the tour for foreign dignitaries who came to view the splendor of Lowell—the model factory city of the New World. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I explained that I’d taken the test of English as a foreign language. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something about speaking in a foreign language that made her feel like she’d been around a lot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Me: I love old classics and foreign films, too. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z A glance at her computer showed foreign networks doing the same. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She continually emphasized to him the importance of knowing other languages, especially if he intended to play chess in foreign lands. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Ships came into port from all over the world. I heard many foreign languages. I saw sailors who wore turbans, and black sailors from Africa. This was just part of my daily life.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The district once offered instruction in five foreign languages. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “You’re asking me to invade the embassy of a foreign government because you felt a hole in the astral waves. What kind of evidence is that?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He said hornets better represent the Merryweather spirit than foreign marsupials, plus the Wombat mascot costume was going to suck money from the prom committee’s budget. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z A woman wearing a plain foreign dress and large, ugly shoes walked toward us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Grube told me that he thought the kings of Kaan, never allied with Teotihuacan, may have wanted to stamp out pernicious foreign influences—xenophobia is a powerful motive in every culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Because her normal existence is so foreign to me, so intriguing to me, it starts to feel a little more interesting to her as well. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policemen in the old movies: “Och, mind you!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t revel in the way synapses fired and blood cells defended against foreign invaders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z To judge from modern parallels in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is unlikely that the natives approved of having foreign interlopers for neighbors or absentee landlords. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Kill the foreign white devils!” was the 1901 Chinese war cry in the Boxer Rebellion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she would try to think a long way ahead to the time she would go north and see snow, or even travel somewhere in a foreign land. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “But, sah, I am cooking the food of your country; all the food you are eating as children I cook. In fact, I’m not cooking Nigerian foods, only foreign recipe.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was still staring at the foreign word, trying to picture it mentally in a language she knew. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Until her foreign debts were paid and her credit with the Dutch bankers in Amsterdam restored, the United States would simply not be taken seriously in Europe’s capitals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Around here is where foreign diplomats live, rich businessmen, members of the royal family—that sort of people. Not like you and me.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They passed a law called Extraordinary Radio Measures, making it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It may be that I was a bit paranoid, given my secret mission, but paranoia was nothing foreign to B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of truly wishing to end one’s own life is a concept completely foreign to most post-mortals, because we can’t experience the level of pain and despair that so seasoned the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “The foreign aid people have been evacuated from Aleppo,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Luckily I could both install her in Camille Prior’s boarding house and arrange to take my evening meals there with Pop and her foreign girls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She spoke as though the words were from a foreign language, one she barely understood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z |
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